Youll never know what I saw in that clinic, Dear said, the atrocitiesthe babies.

Dear also took aim at his lawyer, Dan King, during the proceedings. King had represented Aurora, Colo., theater shooter James Eagan Holmes earlier this year.

Do you know who [King] is? Dear said in another outburst, hes the lawyer for the Batman shooter who drugged him all up and thats what they want to do to me.

Holmes was sentenced to life in prison on August 24 after being convicted of carrying out a mass shooting during a showing of The Dark Knight Rises in 2012.

Dear interrupted his court hearing with outbursts.

King waived Dears right to have his charges read to him, and asked Martinez for a competency hearing, which was set for December 23.

Dear had rambled to authorities about “no more baby parts” after his arrest. And a law enforcement official said this week that the gunman asked at least one person in a nearby shopping center for directions to the clinic before opening fire. The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke this week to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

One of his three ex-wives, Barbara Mescher Micheau of Moncks Corner, South Carolina, said he vandalized a South Carolina abortion clinic at least 20 years earlier, announcing to her that he had put glue in the locks of its doors, a common protest technique among activists trying to shut down abortion clinics.

Dear has lived in remote locations without electricity or water and was known to hold survivalist ideas.

Killed in the attack were Garrett Swasey, 44, a University of Colorado-Colorado Springs officer who rushed to the scene; Ke’Arre Stewart, 29, an Iraq war veteran who was accompanying someone at the clinic; and Jennifer Markovsky, 35, who also accompanied a friend at the clinic.

Five other officers were shot and wounded in the rampage.

Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers said Monday that responding officers rescued 24 people from inside the clinic building and helped remove 300 people from surrounding businesses where they had been hiding while the shooting unfolded.

Fox News’ Kelly David Burke and the Associated Press contributed to this report.